NEWS OF THE DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5579, 26 September 1889, Page 3

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mick Blazel, the -well-known Napier [HjHcunmu, li.-is resigned from the ' fooree. ' To-day commences Tisri, the first month of the new year of 5650 according to the Jewish calendar. A new Stock Exchange has just been formed in Dunodin. Mr (t. S. Brodrick is chairman. Three Dunedin syndicates have ISO acres of tin bearing ground, near that of the Sydney Company. The only name mentioned for the Wellington Mayoralty at present is Mr Travels, the well-known lawyer. Mr N. K. M'Diarmid, manager of the Napier branch of the Bank of New South Wales, leaves shortly to take charge of the branch at New Plymouth. A Wansranui tradesman has been fined L 2 for not stamping a receipt given for money. The receipt in question was the second one given for one amount. A large specimen of the ribbon fish, 12 feet long, 15 inches deep, and 3 inches wide, was caught in Nelson harbor on Monday. These deep sea fish are very rare. A Christchurch telegram says : — " Mr Good, Mayor of Rangiora, was presented with a silver cradle on the occasion of Mrs (food having given birth to a daughter during the present Mayoralty." It is stated that the Russian Admiralty OfKce is building a large number of transports and torpedo boats quickly and secretly. It is believed that nn expedition to the Bosphorus is being planned. A sale of Queensland sugar at Dunedin realised Ll9 2s 6 to Ll9 7s 5d for finest grey and crystals, and Ll9 7s (id to L2O 5s for finest whites. The whole of the lines were sold. Twelve samples of milk from separate dairies supplying Chiistchurch were submitted to Professor Bickerton for analysis, and he reports them pure and of good quality. The deed of composition of Fraser and Sons, bankrupts, for the payment of 5s in the L on all debts due for wages, and 2s in the L on all other debts, has been sustained by the Supreme Court. The case of criminal libel against Mr Wilkie, editor of the Reefton Guardian, ended in a 'fizzle,' the solicitor for the prosecution having neglected to file the indictment, and consequently there was no case. A fire broke out in Johnston and White's flax mill, Opaki, near Mastertoii, which destroyed eighteen bales of dressed fibre, the scutcher and tow sheds, and all the machinery. The loss amounts to £U(!O. There is no insurance. Wanganui is suffering from a ghost scare. The ghost adopts a semi-Druidical rig and has Lightened a good many nervous folks. Ninety people were on his track the other night, and if he's caught he'll have a rough time of it. At Timaru the other day a first offender was fined the customary crown and costs for having been found intoxicated in the street. When arrested lie had £100 in his pocket. He had evidently come down from the country to have a good time. The committee of the Dunedin Early Closing Association have decided to ask all ministers in the city to appeal to theii congregations to pledge themselves not to shop after six o'clock in the evening. The Trades Union and societies are also to be asked to support the movement. The statement was made some time agu that Pears spent L 20,000 every year in advestising his soap. One of the most prominent features of the grand naval review held at the Spithead lately was a large yacht, upon whose immense sail was painted in brilliant colours ' Pears' soap. ' It is is this sort of thing which has built ', up a business now worth a million sterling. i A Woodville message says :— A man i named Kirby employed on the Gorge ' works met with a fatal accident on Monday. He was reaching for the rope oi ■ the care which spans the river at the tun I nel when he slipped from the stage ®n tc 1 the rocks in the bed of the river, a deptl: I of 20 ft. One of his arms was shattered. s and his head was split open. Death en- ' sued shortly after. The residents at the Nenthorn goldfieh i complain of the delay in giving them tele ' graphic communication owing to difficulties' ; raised as to a guarantee. The township ■s has now a lock-up, a portable one having been removed from Mcßae's. Thougl; ' there was scarcely an inhabitant in tin 1 place a few months ago a school is now : - necessity, as there are over a hundrei t children who would attend. i' A special meeting of the Canterbury r Jockey Club was held on Monday. Tin - rules of racing proposed at the Con i ference which was lately held at Welling a ton were adopted. It was suggested that r the adoption should be delayed, but the i chairman urged taat that would be dis c courteous to the delegates, and it waf ultimately agreed to assent to anothei s conference being held during the Dun > edin exhibition meeting if desired by tht l other clubs,

The Midland Railway Company are calling tenders for five contracts over which half a million of money avi'll be spent. The Mahia m irderer Makaore, who is to be hanged i the Napier gaol on Saturday morning at eight o'clock, is resigned to his fate, and spends most of his time in devotional exercises. All the paraphernalia is in readiness, and the necessary preparations have been made in connection with the affair. — Napier paper. Some timo back a stranger who had justarrived from Melbourne reported to the Wellington police that he been assaulted and robbed by a man whom he had been asked to direct him to the wharf. The police have successfully followed up the clue, and a man named Edward M'lntosh, an asssistant cook at the Mount Cook Artilleiy barracks, was taken into custody on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the offence. A watch and chain which had been taken from the stranger were found in M 'ln tosh's bedroom. A Reef ton telegram say,« : — "A second dynamo for the Reefton Electric Light Company, for the duplication of the plant to guard against a break-down, has been landed here. The company are now running about 340 16-candle-power lamps, and the net profit on last month's work was almost equal to 6 per cent per annum upon the capital outlay, L 7,000. The present dynamo will run about 500 lights, and when this number is taken up, the profits on the basis of last month's return will equal 15 per cent per annum. The lights are being fast taken up. During the past throe months there has been no interruption of any kind to the lighting, which now gives perfect satisfaction. The success of the undertaking is now assured.